Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.9.5
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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aṅkam ārūḍham
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sitting on her lap
aṅka (lap) + ārūḍha (mounted). The same root used for mounting a chariot or a throne — Vraja's poet is saying that Yaśodā's lap is Kṛṣṇa's seat of glory. The lap outranks Vaikuṇṭha's throne in vātsalya-rasa.
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sneha-snutam
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flowing because of intense affection
Compound: sneha (affection) + snuta (flowing). Echoes verse 3. The body is a faithful indicator of the heart — Yaśodā's milk flows precisely because her love is real. Bhakti's signature is somatic involuntariness.
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atṛptam
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not fully satisfied
a- (not) + tṛpta (satisfied). Kṛṣṇa is left untṛpta — incomplete, unsatisfied — for the sake of the next pastime. The Lord deliberately enters incompletion so that the līlā can continue.
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utsṛjya
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putting aside
Absolutive of ud + √sṛj. The hardest word in the verse: she 'releases' Him. Gauḍīya commentators note that pure vātsalya is not paralyzed by the Lord's presence — Yaśodā can put Him down to tend to the milk because her duty itself is His.
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javena
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very hastily
Instrumental of java (speed). The hurry of household sevā. Gauḍīya commentary: even when she rises hastily, her motion is service; haste in māyā is bondage, haste in vātsalya is bhāva.
Everything in the household affairs of mother Yaśodā was meant for Kṛṣṇa. Although Kṛṣṇa was drinking the breast milk of mother Yaśodā, when she saw that the milk pan in the kitchen was overflowing, she had to take care of it immediately, and thus she left her son, who then became very angry, not having been fully satisfied with drinking the milk of her breast. Sometimes one must take care of more than one item of important business for the same purpose. Therefore mother Yaśodā was not unjust when she left her son to take care of the overflowing milk. On the platform of love and affection, it is the duty of the devotee to do one thing first and other things later. The proper intuition by which to do this is given by Kṛṣṇa. teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam dadāmi buddhi-yogaṁ taṁ yena mām upayānti te ( Bg. 10.10 ) In Kṛṣṇa consciousness, everything is dynamic. Kṛṣṇa guides the devotee in what to do first and what to do next on the platform of absolute truth.
"Oh how intelligent the child is!" Saying this, she stopped churning and put the boy on her lap and then gave him milk. Then she got up and quickly left. Why? Because milk on the stove was boiling over. But how could Yasoda show so much concern for the milk boiling over that she would leave Krsna unsatisfied and hungry? She had such concern for what Krsna would eat and drink that she could temporarily ignore Krsna. Only those in the sway of prema can understand or talk about such remarkable actions in prema. It is difficult for others to understand.
Her smile spread over her cheeks. She smiled because of the milk flowing spontaneously and because of his sweetness. She looked at his face, but then put him down though he was not yet fully satisfied. “Why did she not go while feeding him and holding him?” She was going quickly. If she held him she could not go quickly. The milk was boiling over. It should be understood that the kitchen was not far away, within sight. The milk, like the yogurt, was special. She left him for a moment only. Yad-dhāmārtha-suhṛt-priyātma-tanaya-prāṇāśayās tvat-kṛte: these devotees of Vṛndāvana have dedicated their homes, wealth, friends, dear relations, bodies, children and very lives and hearts to you. (SB 10.14.35) How much more then had Yaśodā given everything to Kṛṣṇa! Not tolerating any suffering of their son, the mother and father work constantly for his future health, wealth, and knowledge. They also feed him medicine, bathe him and punish him. The height of affection that a mother and father have for their son is difficult to find in other types of love. It does not exist elsewhere. She was thus intensely attached to the wealth of milk of the cowherds. “The child does not know how to protect his wealth. Therefore I must protect it now.” Thinking thus, she put him down, but her going was for his sake also, filled with affection for him. Though one tolerates suffering to protect one’s wealth, there must be strong affection to do so. Similarly, motivated by strong affection for Kṛṣṇa, she tried to protect the milk.
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- Name the two duties competing for you today and ask in prayer which serves Kṛṣṇa first — then act on that order without guilt over the second.
- When you must interrupt one act of service for another more urgent one, refuse the inner accusation that you are 'abandoning' — Yaśodā did not abandon Kṛṣṇa.
- Before sleep, offer both the finished and the unfinished tasks of the day to Kṛṣṇa, trusting His buddhi-yoga rather than your own scorecard.
A bell-ringer at ārati cannot drop the bell to greet a guest; the deity's service ranks its own order. Yaśodā, with Kṛṣṇa Himself on her lap, rises for the boiling milk because that milk is also His — and Vraja's logic is that one act of sevā can be interrupted only by another act of sevā.
King Ambarīṣa, breaking his Ekādaśī fast, was about to take water when Durvāsā Muni arrived. He paused his own vrata to receive his guest — and when Durvāsā took offense at the small drop of water Ambarīṣa took to maintain the vrata, the Sudarśana cakra defended the devotee (SB 9.4).
Like Yaśodā weighing two duties, Ambarīṣa had to choose which sevā ranked which. The Lord Himself oversaw both decisions; neither devotee was abandoned.
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